Electric Mushroom

This is a neon mushroom. I found it at the Manchester, Georgia Piggly Wiggly. It was suspended above the produce section. Up there above the actual mushrooms packed in cellophane, trucked in from who knows where. I fiddled with the effects on iPhoto to make the surroundings dark. You know, so the electric mushroom would "pop."

Neon is a rare noble gas occurring naturally in the air we breathe. It was discovered and isolated by a chemist in 1898, the same year that Lewis Carroll died and that New York City decided to know itself via the Five Boroughs.

Mushrooms, on the other hand, are enlightened aliens that came to planet earth long ago to make themselves of benefit to the human race. According to Terrance McKenna, psychoactive 'shrooms lifted a fledgling humanity up from stooping grunts and into the stratospheres of glossolalia, High Communication, and artistic thinking. The Piggly Wiggly in Manchester knows this. And, more importantly, represents.